Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout, right, douses Howie Kendrick with liquid after he hit an RBI double to win the game during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Saturday, June 21, 2014, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Finally, on a full-count pitch, Kendrick stroked the ball into the left-center field gap to score Josh Hamilton with the winning run in the 10th inning to punctuate a wild 3-2 victory Saturday over the Texas Rangers.

“That’s about all the signs we have,” Kendrick said, laughing.

That is why Angels manager Mike Scioscia loves Kendrick — his ability to do anything in a clutch spot.

“He’s a multi-dimensional player,” Scioscia said. “He can get the bunt down, he can hit and run and he can drive the ball. He got a 3-2 count and he got ahold of a pitch and split the gap. They gave him one mistake and he did not miss it.”

Kendrick bailed out the Angels’ much-maligned bullpen and allowed the announced Angels Stadium crowd of 37,026 to enjoy their scheduled fireworks show without interruption.

Hamilton started the 10th-inning rally off his former team with a line-drive single up the middle off the glove of pitcher Neal Cotts.

The Rangers brought in Jason Frasor to pitch to Kendrick, who worked the count full.

With Hamilton running on the pitch, Kendrick rifled a line drive into the wide-open left-center gap to easily score Hamilton with the winning run.

Kendrick rounded second, joyously threw off his helmet and was immediately mobbed by teammates after his fifth career walkoff hit. Fireworks went off and Kendrick got doused with a colorful celebratory sports drink.

“It gets more and more fun,” said Kendrick, who has three career walkoffs against the Rangers. “The younger you are, the more pressure you put on yourself. The more experience you get, the more you just try to have a good at-bat and let it happen.

“We’ve had a lot of walkoffs. Cowgill, Trout. It seems like it’s a different guy each time. Last year we had a lot of extra-inning games but we lost quite a few of those.”

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Lost in the walkoff aftermath was the performance of Angels starter Jered Weaver.

Not only did Weaver keep the Rangers in the park, he kept the Angels in the game.

Weaver threw eight brilliant innings, allowing just one earned run and four hits. He had five strikeouts and two walks and lowered his home career ERA against the Rangers to 2.17 (10 earned runs in 102 2/3 innings).

“Something clicked there going toward the end of the game,” Weaver said. “I don’t normally look at video, but I compared my last start to myself in 2011 and made a minor adjustment, and everything felt good.

“It was nice to keep us in the game and nice to obviously have Howie come through in a big way.”

But Weaver was nearly matched by Rangers rookie Nick Martinez, who took a perfect game into the sixth inning and allowed two earned runs and three hits in seven innings.

Hank Conger seemed to break Martinez’s spell with a double down the left field line to start the sixth inning, putting to rest any thoughts about a Kershawian performance. Conger scored on a groundout by rookie Efren Navarro.

Then the Angels appeared poised to win the game when rookie C.J. Cron launched a homer into the left-field stands in the eighth inning that deflected off the outstretched glove of leaping Rangers left-fielder Shin-Soo Choo for his fifth homer, all solo shots.

Cron received a boost of confidence earlier in the day when the Angels gave veteran slugger Raul Ibanez his outright release to free up more at-bats for the rising hitting star.

Especially if Cron keeps up that production.

“You mean a home run a night,” Scioscia said, laughing. “C.J. can swing the bat. He’s developing into a hitter, and he’s not intimidated at the plate. He’s gotten some big hits for us.”

However, Choo answered in the ninth off Angels closer de jour Kevin Jepsen with a booming solo homer to center field over the leaping Mike Trout for his seventh homer of the season.

Jepsen recovered to strike out two in the ninth. Mike Morin (1-1) worked around a hit batter to strike out the side in the 10th to earn the win.